Barbados Is The Perfect Caribbean Island For Your Honeymoon
The honeymoon is a hugely important part of any couples wedding preparations; it is after all the climax to one of the most important and special days of your life. It requires a lot of thought and planning to ensure that it is a memorable event. A honeymoon should be all about romance and spending quality time together as newly married couple that have joined together in the ultimate commitment to each other.
A honeymoon destination should be somewhere very special, which will help to make it a magical and unforgettable occasion. I can personally think of no better place than the beautiful Caribbean island of Barbados, it is an amazing island, which is unlike any other country on the entire planet. It has some of the most beautiful beaches and best hotels in the world, as well as being a culturally diverse island.
The island of Barbados really does offer everything that a newly married couple could want to ensure that their honeymoon is a romantic occasion. Picture yourselves wakening up in the morning in a beautiful hotel room, with a balcony overlooking the crystal clear blue Caribbean Sea, then going for a walk hand in hand along the white sandy beach as you enjoy the magic of this Caribbean paradise.
Barbados offers an abundance of fantastic bars, restaurants, music venues, and nightclubs to suit whatever mood you may be in, whether your seeking a quiet and romantic night or a more lively occasion listening to music or dancing the night away to the rhythm of the Caribbean, you will find it all here. There is even an abundance of international duty free shops such as Cave Shepherd, where you can shop until your hearts or wallets are content.
If you like the sound of Barbados as a honeymoon destination, you can find a good selection of hotel rooms at very reasonable rates through a site called hotelscombined.com, why not have a wee look and see what they have to offer. Barbados maybe a small island but it has a great selection of hotel rooms at all levels of the price spectrum.
Barbados is a true tropical paradise that is everything you could dream of and more, it is quite simple the perfect honeymoon destination. If you are tempted by the prospect of honeymooning in Barbados, why not take a look at a site called Barbados Photo Blog, which has some stunning pictures of Barbados.
10 Essential Travel Items You Must Take On Holiday
This is my list of what I perceive to be 10 essential travel items that you should take on holiday with you, to help ensure that you have a successful and safe trip. It doesn’t matter whether you’re going to Barbados, Bahamas, St Lucia, America, Scotland or any place in the world, my list of travel items are essential.
10 Essential Travel Items:
1. Travel Insurance: Probably the most important thing you should make sure you have before you go away on holiday. Don’t be one of those cheapskates that you here saying, it will never happen to me. Make sure you do your research and study what your getting for your money. Don’t just buy it because it’s the cheapest. I have first hand experience of having to claim from an insurance policy and it saved me over £1500 in costs.
2. First Aid Kit: Get a good one, not one of those that cost £1.99 and offer you little plasters and some savlon. Get a decent one, which includes a dental repair kit, diarrhoea tablets, sickness tablets, insect repellent, tweezers etc.
3. Money Belt: A money belt is essential for keeping important items and money safe. Get one made of fabric that won’t get drenched in sweat and is waterproof.
4. Handle Scale: If you are the type of person that always buys lots of goodies when you’re on holiday, this item is essential. Nowadays you will be more than aware how strict airlines have become regarding baggage weights. If you exceed the airlines limits, you will pay heftily for it.
5. Torch: This is an essential piece of equipment; get one of those powerful mini torches that you can easily carry with you. Also make sure you know where it is when you go to your bed at night. You never know when there is going to be a power cut and believe me it will be essential.
6. Compressing Pack: Are great invention which is basically a plastic bag that you put your clothes in, which when rolled up, air gets pushed out through special valves and as a result they save you space in your suitcase.
7. Luggage Straps: These will help to provide extra support and make your luggage extra secure. We are all well aware of the rough handling that our luggage receives once you put it through check in at the airport. How often have you seen busted open bags coming through on the conveyor belt and with the contents all over the place. If only the skinflints had spent a measly £2.00 on a luggage strap they could have avoided the stress. They are also great for quickly identifying your luggage when it comes through.
8. Neck Pillow: I would recommend one of these for anybody going on a flight, get an inflatable one which takes up very little room. Yes they do work and they are worth it, a little bit of extra comfort when flying.
9. ipod: You know when your travelling, especially when your flyi
ng that there is going to be delays, or the choice of onboard entertainment is going to be crap. Make sure you bring your ipod because when things get crazy, you can just listen to your favourite tunes and the world will seem a slightly better place.
10. Large Bag of Jelly Babies: These have saved my life along with my ipod, during crazy airport delays. My favourites are the green ones and the black ones.
To ensure a safe and successful trip, it involves a little bit of thought and careful planning, but as you can see it isn’t rocket science and I can assure you that it is better to be prepared, rather than sorry.
A near perfect list from my perspective, this wee lot works every time for me! If you have any good travel essenital items of your own let me know by leaving a comment.
The Barbados Blog Has At Last Got Some Sexyiness, Rihanna!
I was taking things easy in Barbados as I do from time to time, and thought to myself that The Barbados Blog was a dam good blog, but it needed spiced up a little bit. In other words it could do with a little bit of sexyiness to heat it up a wee bit.
Then it dawned on me, who is quite possible the most famous and biggest star that Barbados has ever produced, it can obviously only be Rihanna. This girl is known worldwide as a R&B singing sensation that has taken the world by storm. She seems to be a great ambassador for Barbados and is making people take notice of Barbados, who were previously not even aware that it even existed. She is not only a fantastically talented artist, but she is also a stunningly attractive and sexy looking lady.
In 2003, at the age of 15, Rihanna received her big break when one of her friends introduced her to music producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing in Barbados with his wife. Rogers, along with his partner, Carl Sturken, helped Rihanna record material in the U.S. which was sent to various recording companies. One copy of Rihanna’s work was sent to Jay-Z, who eventually signed her to Def Jam Recordings.
A few facts about Rihanna:
Birth name: Robyn Rihanna Fenty
Born: February 20, 1988 (1988-02-20) (age 20)
Origin: Saint Michael, Barbados
Genre(s): Pop, R&B, reggae, dance-pop, electronica, electropop, dancehall
Occupation(s): Singer, model, fashion designer, music director
Official website: Rihanna
Watch and Listen to Rihanna perform “Disturbia”
Where Is Barbados, Well Let Me Educate You!
I have been asked the question “where is Barbados”, quite a few times from people that have read The Barbados Blog and have been intrigued by life in Barbados and what the island has to offer. So for the benefit of all those that are not too sure where Barbados is situated in the world, let me educate you and show you where it is.
Barbados is a fairly small island situated in the Caribbean region of the world. The island is actually located in the Atlantic Ocean to the east of the other Caribbean islands. The exact location of Barbados is 13 ͦ North of the equator and 59 ͦ West of the prime meridian; the Island lies in the Southern Caribbean region.
The closet neighbours to Barbados are Saint Vincent & the Grenadines and Saint Lucia to the west and Trinidad & Tobago to the south. Barbados is also fairly close to the continent of South America and is only 270 miles (432 km) northeast of Venezuela. Barbados is 1599 miles (2573 km) northwest of Miami.
There we have it, my personal directions to the beautiful Caribbean Island of Barbados.